As documented here and elsewhere, in addition to the Pope and Putin, the third world leader US president Obama is “historically” meeting this week is China’s President, and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist party, Xi Jinping. But just like everywhere else, the president is mostly a figurehead for far greater political and primarily financial interests backing him.
So who calls the shots in China? The following infographc lays out the key power divisions of political, economic and financial power in China at this moment.